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I will incline mine ear to a parable - The phrase “I will incline mine ear” means that he would listen or attend to - as we incline our ear towar...
XLIX. The Immortality of the Righteous. The poet takes a popular proverb for his theme. This proverb recurs as a refrain in Psalms 49:12 and Psa...
4. I will incline my ear (214) to a parable The Hebrew word משל , mashal, (215) which I have translated parable, properly denotes...
I will incline mine ear to a parable: I will open my dark saying upon the harp. I will incline mine ear to a parable - This was the general method of...
I will incline mine ear to a parable, &c.— Much of the eastern wisdom consisted in the understanding of parables, and in the interpretation of...
I will incline mine ear to a parable: I will open my dark saying upon the harp. I will incline mine ear to a parable - or 'similitude' х ma...
There is little to fix the date of this Ps. The writer moralises, in the fashion of the book of Proverbs, on the vanity of wealth and honour apart fr...
I will incline mine ear. — The psalmist first listens, that he may himself catch the inspiration which is to reach others through his song. It wa...
Psalms 49:1-20 THIS psalm touches the high-water mark of Old Testament faith in a future life; and in that respect, as well as in its application...
the Folly of Trusting in Riches Psalms 49:1-20 Here is a proclamation worthy of the hearing of all the world. The psalmist is listening to voic...
This is the song of a principle, and the psalmist commences by calling peoples of all castes and classes to give attention. It denies the power of ma...
The Psalmist demands to be heard in what he had to deliver, on account of its importance; but to conciliate affection, he proposes not to make his su...
I will incline mine ear to a parable ,.... In which way of speaking the doctrines of the Gospel were delivered out by Christ, Matthew 13:3 . Where...
I will incline mine ear to a parable: I will open my dark saying upon the harp. Ver. 4. I will incline mine ear to a parable ] q.d. I desire you...
My mouth shall speak of wisdom I shall not treat of trivial things, nor of those I have but slightly considered; but about the most weighty matters...
A Call to Attention. To the chief musician. A psalm for the sons of Korah....
I will incline mine ear: this is another argument to persuade them to hearken to him: I will hearken what God by his Spirit speaks to me, and that...
An Appeal To Listen To His Words ( Psalms 49:1-5 ). The Psalmist commences by making an appeal to all men, both high and low, rich and poor, to li...
INTRODUCTION Superscription .—“ To the Chief Musician, a psalm for the sons of Korah .” See Introduction to Psalms 42 . Both the author of the psa...
Psalms 49:4 There are two voices always speaking in man, and attempting to govern all other influences in his soul despondency and aspiration. The...
The chief musician here bids us not to fear the ungodly. However high they may be placed, they are but dying men, and when they die their hope shall...
Psalms 49:1 . Hear this, all ye people; give ear, all ye inhabitants of the world. The psalmist opens his song as a philosopher and a prophet, giv...
Hear this, all ye people; give ear, all ye inhabitants of the world: both low and high, rich and poor, together. The inequalities of society Im...
I will open my dark saying upon the harp. Dark sayings Some minds are darker than a dark saying. Doubt is cloudland; and cloudland presupposes...
EXPOSITION THIS is a didactic poem, and resembles in some respects Psalms 37:1-19 , and Psalms 73:1-19 . It deals with the same problem—the...
Of the Vanity of Earthly Goods. To the chief musician, for use in liturgical worship, a psalm for the sons of Korah, a hymn of instruction and con...
I will incline mine ear, in the attitude of the most careful attention, to a parable, a proverb and illustration of true wisdom revealed by God Him...
2 Corinthians 3:12 ; Daniel 8:23 ; Ezekiel 20:49 ; Luke 12:3 ; Matthew 13:11-15 ; Matthew 13:35 ; Numbers 23:7 ; Proverbs 1:6 ; Psalms 78:2...
I will — I will hearken what God by his Spirit speaks to me, and that will I now speak to you. A parable — Which properly is an allegorical speech,...
4 I will incline mine ear to a parable: I will open my dark saying upon the harp.